Rawhide xdvik obsoleted by F8 tetex-xdvi

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 15:44 -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> 
> It looks like xdvik-22.84.13-15.fc9 has this problem fixed, it now provides 
> tetex-xdvi = 3.0-99 which should be newer than the fc8 update.

Unfortunately, pup reports:

        tetex-xdvi - 3.0-44.3.fc8.x86_64 obsoletes xdvik -
        22.84.13-17.fc9.x86_64

> 
> Try installing the newer xdvik from rawhide:
> yum --enable-repo=development update xdvik
> 
> >          tetex-xdvi              x86_64     3.0-44.3.fc8     updates
> 
> If the new package doesn't fix it, one option would be to just use 
> --exclude=tetex-xdvi for awhile, even making a yum alias if you want to:
> alias yum="yum --exclude=tetex-xdvi"
> 
> in your .bashrc will do the trick (don't forget this is there...)

Unfortunately, I don't think this will stop yum-updatesd from thinking
there's an update.  The pup icon is still in my notification tray.

> 
> >         906 k
> >              replacing  xdvik.x86_64 22.84.13-10.fc9
> 
> Did you try using yum-versionlock and adding xdvik to your 
> /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.list?
> It should have prevented anything from changing xdvik, which updating to 
> tetex-xdvi would do.
> 
> I think the new package should fix this however.

-- 
                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Mathematical Sciences
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